Abstract

The book offers a summative assessment of Auster’s career both as a writer and as a film-maker. Adopting various interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors – Michelle Banks, Alan Bilton, Mark Brown, Stefania Ciocia, Anita Durkin, Ginevra Geraci, Jesús A. González, François Hugonnier, Ulrich Meurer, James Peacock, Paolo Simonetti, and Aliki Varvogli – contextualize Auster’s position not only in the American canon, but also on the global artistic scene.